Re: If YOU were Joe Calzaghe, would you come out of retirement to fight Andre Ward?

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Originally Posted by Mordechai

calzaghe would outclass ward in his prime. thats a fact. i'am 100 % that ward will lose in the next two years. i would bet that dirrell beats him. his lack of power will cost him an atg career. because there will be a guy with great power and a pressure style who will catch ward.

Your opinion, not a fact. Calzaghe never outclassed anybody, he out worked them. Ward's skill and technique is leagues better than Joe's.

Ward has enough power. Enough to get Froch's respect and bust up his face. Bute is known to hit hard and Froch walked right through those shots.

Re: If YOU were Joe Calzaghe, would you come out of retirement to fight Andre Ward?

Calzaghes resume is so incredibly thin the only thing he has going for him is retiring with a 0.
Now to risk this 0 there would have to be HUGE money to risk that legacy.

Ward would be incredibly difficult even in Joe's prime and personally i think style wise he just does not matchup that favourebly.
But the most important factor is that Ward is not THAT big of a draw, he does not generate that much money.

So this is a gigantic risk for little reward outside of a huge legacy boost, and Joe has already shown through his career that legacy is not that big of a factor for him.

Re: If YOU were Joe Calzaghe, would you come out of retirement to fight Andre Ward?

Of course not, Joe has nothing to prove. He dominated his era, and made the step up to LHW and became champion in that division. Joe beat Kessler and Hopkins back to back, meaning that he beat the best fighters at 168 and 175 one after the other, there's nothing more to say.